From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 29 4:45:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from nef.ens.fr (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32E2337B622 for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 04:45:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Rahul.Siddharthan@lpt.ens.fr) Received: from corto.lpt.ens.fr (corto.lpt.ens.fr [129.199.122.2]) by nef.ens.fr (8.10.1/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id f4TBj2R01627 ; Tue, 29 May 2001 13:45:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: from (rsidd@localhost) by corto.lpt.ens.fr (8.9.3/jtpda-5.3.1) id NAA10326 ; Tue, 29 May 2001 13:45:39 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 13:45:39 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Bzdik BSD Cc: Brad Knowles , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Acknowledgement by Jobs Message-ID: <20010529134539.E3636@lpt.ens.fr> References: <20010529104636.31597.qmail@web13602.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010529104636.31597.qmail@web13602.mail.yahoo.com>; from bzdik@yahoo.com on Tue, May 29, 2001 at 03:46:36AM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Bzdik BSD said on May 29, 2001 at 03:46:36: > > Moreover, since modern beer was invented/discovered by a Belgian > > monk, I can safely say that it is not spelled "bear". At least, I > > have to assume that you meant a fermented alcoholic beverage, as > > opposed to a large member of the Ursine family of mostly vegetarian > > quadrupeds. > > > the ones that love salmon ...you could call this a vegetarian pastime > :) > I was trying to give our gentleman-profiler a few more hints, don't > spoil the process as for beer invention, talk to monks from {Monken > on Isar}Munchen :)you'll end up fighting > the best beer is made by friends of Joseph Schweik anyway...no matter > what you say... they also are the best hockey players...Belgian > chocolate is undisputedly superior to anything else {watch this line}in > its product cathegory. -etc, etc, snipped- I don't think this is a space alien -- more likely a computer program (especially with a name like that). There's a similar, but much more coherent, program (to generate postmodern text) at http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/community/postmodern.html (follow the link given there) But neither that, nor this, yet come close to passing the Turing test. R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message